The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

Such a fun book. When you get to the end, you just start over and there you are. Wonderful.

Lexicon: A Novel by Max Barry

I saw this book at Books Inc on Market in the Castro. It was on their featured Sci-Fi shelf and it just looked interesting. Boy what a roller-coaster of a ride it is too! Later that month, I was at the San Francisco Airport Termail 3. The Books Inc. Store there, Compass Books, is under renovation and they have just a small assortiment in the large mall space. But they had Lexicon. A woman asked me what book I'd recommend. I told her, if you can handle the premise that certain sounds or words can control a person, you'll love it. She said she could. Saw her a little later. and she couldn't put it down. I've read it twice now and it was good the second time. Well I knew what was going on so I wasn't as lost and I could see more of how the thing was put together. If you liked The Rook, you'll also like this. If you like this, try The Rook.
Randy

The Unincorporated Man by Dani Kollin

We visit a classic genre of cryogenic freezing in this 2010 Prometheus Award winning tale of a world where humans are commodities to be bought, sold and traded. People are incorporated and their actions restricted if they are unable to reach majority shareholder power over their own person.

Our protagonist doesn't drive you to have affection for him but he does bring you to his side as he leads the fight against incorporating when he wakes from 300 years in a self-made suspension unit. Cord's defiance of society's structure shakes the very foundations and threatens to destroy a world that seems to have finally found some peace.

A great book that gives pause for thoughts about the greater good vs. personal independence.

Shantelle

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein

A Different Light by Elizabeth A. Lynn